Our Vascular Surgery Service offers the latest minimally invasive procedures.
Vascular conditions that were once deemed inoperable or untreatable are now being treated successfully allowing patients to live their lives without feelings of fear or hopelessness. The Vascular Surgery Service at Tanner Health has been responsible for many advances in vascular surgery. Dr. Lee Kirksey, Chief of Endovascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine, has dedicated himself to excellence by putting together a team of internationally known surgeons who are among the leading vascular and endovascular surgeons in the world, having the extensive experience in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease and minimally invasive treatment of complex disorders. This team prides themselves in providing a quality of patient care that has raised the bar across the region.
Our goal is to provide minimally invasive, durable treatments for vascular diseases. Minimally invasive treatments can improve clinical outcome and lower the cost of conventional surgical and therapeutic procedures. The Center has a leadership role in research and development in this actively growing field.
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Venous Ablation/Varicose Veins
A new technique utilizing laser energy delivered directly to the inside of the vein to treat varicose veins.
Sclerotherapy/Spider Veins
The most common treatment for spider veins. During the procedure a solution called a "sclerosing agent" is injected into the veins. This causes the inner lining of the vein to adhere, which results in scar tissue that acts as 'glue' to seal off the unwanted veins.
Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (Balloon Angioplasty)
A procedure that opens narrowed, blocked blood vessels to the heart, legs, kidneys and elsewhere in the body without surgery. A catheter with a tiny balloon on the tip is threaded into the narrowed artery, the balloon is inflated, pressing plaque against the walls of the blood vessel, creating a channel for increased blood flow.
Atherectomy
Techniques similar to balloon angioplasty, except that they use non-surgical devices that cut or pulverize the plaque in the vessel, rather than just press it against the vessel wall.
Thrombolytic Therapy
The use of clot-busting medication to break up and dissolve blood clots.
Stents
Tiny, expandable metal tubes used inside arteries to help keep vessels open throughout the body.
Bypass Graft Maintenance
Also called arterial (in the legs or abdomen) bypass surgery, this surgical procedure creates a detour around a narrow or blocked artery by creating a new pathway with a plastic tube or a vein from elsewhere in the body. Over time the graft may become narrowed or clogged, but can be fixed with angioplasty, stent and/or thrombolysis.
Aortic Endovascular Stent Grafts
New minimally invasive procedures for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm performed by a surgeon and interventional radiologist. Primarily for patients who can not tolerate conventional aneurysm surgery.
Carotid and Subclavian Artery Stents
For prevention of stroke in patients who are not candidates for surgery. Uses a balloon to open the artery and then a stent to keep it open.
Vascular Access Procedures
- Kidney Failure/Dialysis Treatment
Placement of dialysis catheters through the skin, a minimally invasive treatment to keep kidneys functioning.
Venous access can also preserve the function of a dialysis fistula, or arteriovenous (AV) graft used for hemodialysis. These may become narrowed or blocked and can be fixed with angioplasty and/or thrombolysis.
- Placement of Infusion Ports
Used for chemotherapy or long term (6 weeks or more) antibiotic therapies. A catheter is placed into a large central vein in the chest. The other end attaches to a port placed in a pocket beneath the skin's surface in the arm or chest.
Embolization
Injection of particles through a catheter in the artery or vein, in order to block the blood vessel and "kill" the tumor. This procedure makes surgery faster and safer, due to less blood loss. Pain and bleeding associated with painful uterine fibroids can be controlled, often eliminating the need for surgery (hysterectomy). This procedure is referred to as Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) or Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE).
Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement
Placement of a small filter in the large vein in the abdomen (IVC) to catch clots from the legs that may travel to the lungs.
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